Mount Indie is hiring a Sr Platform Architect III to lead a recently awarded 5 year contract supporting the IC. You'll bring 10 years of hands-on experience in architecting, designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable infrastructure solutions with containers and Kubernetes. In this role, you will lead a team of Platform Engineers and play a critical hands-on role in architecting, deploying, and managing our customer's core platform, ensuring its availability, performance, and security. Responsibilities Overview:
- Lead planning, development, and deployment of platform components and services
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and frameworks to optimize platform performance, security, and cost-effectiveness.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes, enabling rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Monitor platform performance, identify bottlenecks, and proactively optimize systems for maximum efficiency.
- Manage cloud-based infrastructure and orchestration tools to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
- Drive security best practices throughout the platform, implementing measures to safeguard data, applications, and services.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues to minimize downtime. Required Skills/Experience:
- Active TS//SCI clearance with CI Poly.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience as a Platform Architect, Technical Lead or similar role.
- Expert-level hands-on experience architecting, designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure platform architectures at scale, in the cloud and on-premise, across multiple classification domains (IL5 to IL6+) simultaneously.
- Proficiency in AWS with a deep understanding of cloud services and networking.
- Expert hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes; specifically experience with OpenShift is highly preferred.
- Strong expertise with service mesh technology and tools such as GreyMatter and Istio
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex system issues.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders Desired Qualifications:
- One or more relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, or AWS Solution Architect Associate, with Kubernetes certifications highly preferred.
- In-depth knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Demonstrated experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Artifactory, GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube.
- Solid scripting and programming skills in languages like Python, Go, Ruby, or similar.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.